ERASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erasure mean? 

• ERASURE (noun)
  The noun ERASURE has 3 senses:

1. a correction made by erasing

2. a surface area where something has been erased

3. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

  Familiarity information: ERASURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERASURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A correction made by erasing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

there were many erasures in the typescript

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

correction (something substituted for an error)

Derivation:

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A surface area where something has been erased

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

another word had been written over the erasure

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

area; expanse; surface area (the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary)

Derivation:

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

erasure; expunction; expunging

Hypernyms ("erasure" is a kind of...):

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

Derivation:

erase (remove from memory or existence)

erase (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

 Context examples 

Past hydrothermal activity, which may have influenced the salts rising to the surface at Occator, could also have something to do with the erasure of craters.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

The erasure of summer was at hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So many were the blots, however, and so numerous the scratches and erasures, that he had at last given it up in despair, and sat with his single uncovered eye cocked upwards at the ceiling, as one who waits upon inspiration.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)